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Yes, for sure, in several pictures on that 'wrecked exotic' site from a few years back. I stopped looking at it years ago because it made me sad, but I do remember seeing the airbags deployed in almost every shot on there.

Andrew Macpherson

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No deployed airbags....driver was stopped by the steering wheel and the front screen was dented by object from the outside. All reasons why an airbag should be deployed. As far as I know an airbag has a maximum date .....these ones may be over date?

To American values it is ready for scrap. What are the current prices for a car with 45K mls: 75K? minus this piece of junk: 30K remains for parts and rebuilding. To European values a car with 45K miles prices are about ?85K so you have ?45k to spend on repair....but I would never step into that car

Worldwide 220.000 BMW 3 series ( build between December 2001 and March 2003) get a recall because the airbag can be malfunctioning. Does anyone know what kind of airbags we have? I have seen quite a lot of pictures now of Z8 with all kinds of (severe) damage .....but never an airbag was deployed???

I sent all the pictures of the crashes with non deployed airbags to Dieter. His opinion is that the impact of the collision was not strong enough. After that I spoke to a German (ex) owner who hit the safety barrier on the Autobahn with about 80 mls....and no airbags were deployed. I know we have a special car ....but our mortal bodies are not that special that we can take that kind of impacts without problems :-)